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All the Real Girls (2003)

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Reviews Counted:110

Fresh:78

Rotten:32

Average Rating:6.9/10

Consensus: Has enough honest moments to warrant a look.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some sexuality

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 14, 2003 Limited

Box Office: $141,311

Synopsis: ALL THE REAL GIRLS is set in a small mill town that gets smaller and more run down with each passing year. Paul (Paul Schneider) has lived here all his life, never been out of the county. It's... ALL THE REAL GIRLS is set in a small mill town that gets smaller and more run down with each passing year. Paul (Paul Schneider) has lived here all his life, never been out of the county. It's never really occurred to him. He lives a cozy, affectionate life with his mom, Elvira (Patricia Clarkson) and he works as a grease monkey for his uncle Leland (Benjamin Mouton). Charming in his way, he has a devoted circle of rowdy friends that he's known for ever -- Tip (Shea Whigham), the richest and most lawless of the bunch; Bo (Maurice Compte), a philosopher not interested in wasting his precious seed on the local girls; and Bust-Ass (Danny McBride), a goofball who is not the sharpest tool in the shed. It's a place of rednecks, mill hands, beer-slugging pontificators and fallen southern belles. Paul's life changes when he finds Tip's younger sister Noel, (Zooey Deschanel), who has just graduated from boarding school and returned to town. She catches the eye of Paul, who has never met anyone like her. And she's never met anyone quite like him -- funny and quirky and unpretentious. They fall in love -- a scary, uncomfortable love, with no precedents for either of them. Although he's had more than his share of romantic experiences, he has never felt anything like this. He's elated and terrified at the same time. And for Noel, this seems like the real thing, not that she knows what she's supposed to do next. For all her worldliness, and his previous conquests, they sometimes act like two kids playing at grown-up love. As the Winter progresses, things go very right, and sometimes wrong. -- © Sony Pictures Classics [More]

Starring: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Patricia Clarkson, Shea Whigham

Starring: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Patricia Clarkson, Shea Whigham, Danny McBride, Benjamin Mouton

Director: David Gordon Green

Director: David Gordon Green
Screenwriter: David Gordon Green
Story: Paul Schneider, David Gordon Green
Producer: Jean Doumanain, Lisa Muskat
Composer: David Wingo, Michael Linnen
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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Green is 27, old enough to be jaded, but he has the soul of a romantic poet.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
02/28/03
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Art-school stew, made, in this case, from Green's own leftovers.

Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times | comment Comment
02/27/03
Mary F. Pols
Mary F. Pols
Contra Costa Times

A small movie about big emotions, with Green capturing the rush of love and sting of heartbreak with great vividness.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
02/27/03
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune
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Wallows in high-fallutin’ indie-ness while catering to self-indulgent reality.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
02/26/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

...now that I sit down to review the picture a couple weeks later, I barely remember it. Whatever positive impression it left sure didn't last.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
02/25/03
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Girls has small and simple charms, but the movie succumbs to the combined weight of its preoccupations with non-hurried, 'honest' interactions and general open-endedness.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
02/24/03
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

A picture of fits and starts, sometimes touching and occasionally insightful, but overall quite artificial and affected.

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02/24/03
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Isn't likely to win over the romance audiences who look for fluffy distractions ... [but] will please those who like their relationship movies honest, realistic, and understated.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
02/23/03
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

Green seems more in love with his perceived unconventionality than he does with his characters.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
02/21/03
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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A handsomely photographed movie of little consequence.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
02/20/03
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

The film's strengths are overshadowed by Green's flawed script, which wobbles awkwardly between art-house eccentricity and trite Hollywood sentimentality.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
02/19/03
Justin Hartung
Justin Hartung
Citysearch

Serves as an incisive commentary on the extent to which we, as the modern audience, have learned to accept a certain contrived cleverness as the true evocation of love.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
02/18/03
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Green's refusal to deliver a clear-cut denouement is less a tease or failure of imagination than a haunting truth about wounding love. He has bored deep into the American core and come up with gold.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/15/03
Erica Abeel
Erica Abeel
Film Journal International

Girls isn't fabulous, but you do feel its characters really have connected.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
02/14/03
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Too many scenes feel like actor's exercises in which characters assume unconventional positions and suffer bouts of spontaneous dancing.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
02/14/03
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Paul Schneider, a buoyant young newcomer from North Carolina, is the No. 1 reason to see David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
02/14/03
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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A love story for dorks, and I mean that in the best possible way.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
02/14/03
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

An incredibly real story about first love -- not just realistic, but real -- and a heart-breaking but unyielding portrait of what happens when that emotional purity inevitably falls apart.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
02/14/03
Annlee Ellingson
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine

An engaging and marvelously acted romantic drama that is unhurried and at peace with the incompleteness of our understandings of love and life.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
02/14/03
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Green ... makes messy poetry out of life's throwaway moments and all the things that other filmmakers might cut away from.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
02/14/03
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